The TBS team have negotiated deals this year ranging from a very special country cottage at £800,000, a pied-a-terre in Spitalfields and a house in Knightsbridge through to a large residential estate in excess of £20m. But 2017 has been about off market deals–in excess of 70% of our country purchases (up from 50% in…

Living on the river mean that the views from your house are ever changing and evolving–from the mists that rise from the water on crisp winter mornings through to the flourishing birdlife in spring and the busy season of rowing regattas in the summer, there’s always something to do or watch on any day of…

Just twenty years ago, the typical property ladder for successful, London-based young professionals was a well-trodden path: the first rung was a two-bedroom flat in Parsons Green or Brook Green; then, after marrying, the second rung might be a three-bedroom terraced house between the commons in Clapham or perhaps something larger in Wandsworth; and the…

LONDON GARDENS Kew Gardens, Richmond Why go: Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003, it’s spectacular at all times of the year but in spring, don’t miss the flowering cherry tree avenue leading to the Temperate House, as well as the woodland garden which is filled with violets and trilliums. Contact: 020 8332 5655;…

Across all our regions and all price bands, we see a shortage of country houses coming to the market in 2017. As buying agents, we’re in the lucky position of finding out early which houses are due to be launched in the coming months so have a privileged long-view of the market. The “tip offs”…

There remains strong appetite for the very best in class estates, these would be within two hours of London to the west, unblighted and have 1,000 acres of mixed farm and amenity land, and a beautiful period, ideally not-too-large Georgian house in reasonably good condition. For an opportunity so rare it is likely that buyers…